After an exciting week of ramming back and forth between eastern and western Thailand, I’ve decided to chill out in a sweet suite here in Kanchanaburi, just up the road from that famous “Bridge over the River Kwai”. It’s a lot touristier than Ubon, the place at the opposite end of the country where I just came from. I think I would have preferred something a bit in-between. At least there should be a lot to do here.<\/p>\n
Although I managed to get the last sleeping berth on the train, it wasn’t quite as nice as the overnight train I took to Chiang Mai last year. I was stuck with an upper bunk, which has little headroom and little ventilation. I was sweating; lying there is bed for hours before I could get to sleep. There was a vent up on my ceiling, but when I opened it up, and bunch of black dusty crud fell down out of it and onto my nice clean pillow. Yuck!<\/p>\n
I did eventually get to sleep for about 4-5 hours, so it wasn’t so bad. Getting the bus out here to Kanchanaburi from Bangkok was a lot easier. I have to confess to being somewhat embarrassed when I arrived. After hopping off the bus, a man I thought was a taxi driver plugged his taxi service with no taxi in sight. I agreed to the price and he escorted me to his bicycle rickshaw. I felt like such a colonialist in the back of that thing as he peddled a good mile or two out to my guesthouse. Poor guy. He was probably older than me. I made sure to give him a good tip.<\/p>\n
This is a very popular weekend destination for Thais as well as Western backpackers. The weather is definitely more humid than Ubon was, but it isn’t nearly a hot as Ayutthaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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